-
- Dr. Limbertas KLIMKA
- Ethnical Culture Care Council
-
- Readers of the article are invited to a one day trip to
- the highest place in Lithuania. The hill is in Medininkai
Eminence, located over 28 km from Vilnius, in a 0,5 km distance from
Juozapinė Hill. It has 293,842 m of height and is called by the name
of Aukštėjas – the highest god of old Lithuanian belief, the creator
of the universe, ruler of morality and justice. A traveler is
recommended to take the book called “Jaunts across Lithuania
starting from
- Vilnius” written by Vladislovas Sirokomle (Liudvikas
Kondratavicius, 1823-1862) and printed in two volumes in 1857 and
1860. One should realize what a long historical memory the rout
contains. That is the trail of Lithuanians marching to fight their
eastern neighbors and defend their homeland, as well as the way of
enemy troops accessing the heart of Lithuania-capital Vilnius. The
road has seen Moscow’s army marching in 1655, Swedish warriors in
1702, fights of J. Jasinskis’ rebels, the triumph ant the tragic
winter retreat of Napoleon in 1812, and even tanks of General
Cerniachovksi in the year 1944. The trip should not only reveal a
vibrant history of the region, but also acquaint with some
interesting heritage objects of national minorities. The
possibilities for developing cultural tourism are enormous. One
simply needs to start caring and packaging the material for Vilnius
citizens and their guests.
-
- Contact: Dr. Libertas Klimka
- Ethnical culture care council
- Tel.: (+370) 686 52800. E-mail: libertas.klimka@omni.lt
-
-
- Pretending to Become a New
Point in Lithuanian
- Cultural Tourism Map
-
- Donatas Žukauskas
- Trakai History Musuem, Department of
Medininkai Castle
-
- On 21 of July 2005 in Medininkai the
- press conference was organized and the project of Medininkai
Castle reconstruction was introduced. The Castle of Medininkai,
residence of Lithuanian grand dukes Vytautas and Kazimieras, is
intended to be reconstructed until 2009 and to become one of the
country’s cultural tourism centers . According to the project of
- Medininkai Castle restoration, it is planned to restore the main
tower of the Castle – donjon, some parts of archers’ gallery and
entrance gate, the administration and household buildings are going
to be built. Moreover, Castles defensive ditches will be
reconstructed and in the yard of the Castle a permanently active
craft town containing smithy, potter’s, goldsmiths, glazier’s,
currier’s and armourers workshops will be established. Medininkai
- Castle, built in 13th-14th centuries, is the greatest
- fenced castle in Lithuania, and one of the largest castles
- of such type in the whole Eastern Europe.
-
- Contact: Donatas Žukauskas
- Trakai History Musuem
- 4 Kęstučio str, LT-21104, Trakai.
- Tel.: (+370) 528 55297; (+370) 610 14185.
- E-mail: d.zukauskas@trakaimuziejus.lt
-
-
- in Local Government Museums
-
- Jurgita Verbickiene
- The Centre for Studies of the Culture and History of East
European Jews
-
- In the autumn of 2004 The Centre for Studies of the
- Culture and History of East European Jews started a succeeding
project called “Map of Jews in the Baltic Region”. Among its aims
are: studying the Jewish heritage and representing it in the society,
making it accessible for scientific research, helping museologists
to identify and describe objects. The program was started in
Lithuania (in cooperation with Association of Lithuanian Museums,
Kedainiai Area Museum and other local government museums) however,
it is going to be expanded. The program is about to cover several
countries (Lithuania, Latvia and Belarus), that had been in the
cultural range and living environment of Litvaks. The successful
development of the project should enable a realistic reconstruction
of the
- Jewish lifestyle view in Lithuania and neighbor countries and
should enlarge the present base of knowledge and improve the quality
of Jewish expositions in museums.
-
- Contact: Jurgita Verbickienė
- Center for the Studies of the Culture and History of East
European Jews
- 5 Šv. Ignoto str., LT-01120 Vilnius, Lithuania
- Tel. (+370) 5 262 37 07. E-mail: jurgita@jewishstudies.lt
-
-
- Heritage: Traditions of
Saint Petersburg
-
- Brigita BALČYTIENĖ
- Trakai History Musuem, Department of Public
- Relations and Education
-
- The publication presents the 4th international
- scientific – practical conference “The Heritage of Roerichs –
Protection of Cultural Heritage: Traditions of Saint Petersburg”.
The conference was organized by Sain Petersburg State University,
University’s Center of Roerichs, Saint-Petersburg Museum-Institute,
international charity foundation “Heritage of Roerichs”, Club of
World’s Petersburgians and the Congress House. During the conference
82
- papers were read and presented on mounts for discussion.
Speakers from 5 countries (Russia, Lithuania, Kazakhstan, Belarus,
and Ukraine) were attending. The topics of discussion proceeding
where: Research on the beginning of International Systems of
Cultural Heritage Protection in Saint Petersburg; Employment of
Russian Cosmism
- Ideas upon Lifestyle and Culture in the Globalizing World;
Analysis of Contemporary Philanthropy Conceptions: Practices and
Social Responsibility; Formulation of Priorities and Practical Means
for Protecting and Researching the Heritage of Nicolas Roerich and
his Family in Saint Petersburg, Moscow and other places in Russia.
-
- Contact: Brigita Balčytienė
- Trakai History Museum
- 4 Kęstučio str, LT-21104, Trakai.
- Tel.: (+370) 528 53946; fax: (+370) 528 55288.
- E-mail: info@trakaimuziejus.lt
-
-
- – a Link between Continents
-
- Silvija STAKULIENĖ
- Museum of Medicine History in Vilnius University
-
- After the 10 years brake, on 20-25 of August 2005 in academic
institutions of Kaunas and Vilnius took place the 7th congress of
European Association of the
- Museums of Medical Sciences dedicated to the Middle and East
European countries. The main topic was “Conservation
- and care of the large scale medical and pharmaceutical equipment”.
In this biyearly event attended specialists from 10 countries:
Belarus, Croatia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Holland, Romania,
Russia, Ukraine and the United States of America. Congress was
divided into two parts: theoretical and practical ones. Museologists
from Lithuania made a discourse upon the history and museology of
medicine.
-
- Contact: Silvija Stakulienė
- Museum of Medicine History in Vilnius University
- 21 M.K.Čiurlionio str., LT- 03101 Vilnius.
- Tel.:(+370) 5 2398743. E-mail: Silvija.stakuliene@mf.vu.lt
-
- Middle-East Europe
-
- Kristina JOKUBAVIČIENĖ
- Lithuanian Art Museum, Pranas Domšaitis Gallery
-
- On 15-17 of September 2005 in Lithuanian Art Museum, Pranas
Domšaitis Gallery during the 125th anniversary of birth of Pranas
Domšaitis an international
- conference “Artistic centers and societies of artists in the
Middle-East Europe” was organized. The aim of the conference was to
actualize Artistic centers and societies of Artists in the
Middle-East Europe’s cultural history
- and to evaluate it on future cultural life perspectives of the
region. Artistic society of Nida is a unique example in Lithuanian
history. From the end of 19th century small village of fishermen
called Nida became the center of gathering and
- rtistic activities of painters, writers, actors and musicians.
The colony of painters in Nida was dispersed by the
- Second World War. After regaining independence cultural history
of the region is being discovered anew with the stress on its
suitability for tourism development.
-
- Contact: Kristina Jokubavičienė
- Lithuanian Art Museum, Pranas Domsaitis Gallery
- 33 Liepų str., LT-92145, Klaipėda.
- Tel. (+370) 46 410416; (+370) 616 01314.
- E-mail: kpgdomsaitis@takas.lt
-
-
-
- Japan’s Government in the fiscal year 2005 according to
- the program Cultural Grant Aid of Japan decided to grant
- the project of Lithuanian Art Museum “Renovation of Audiovisual
Facilities in National Art Gallery”. Creation of National Art
Gallery is one of strategic projects of National Culture Development
and Lithuania’s Millennium
- Programs. The Gallery which intends to collect, systemize and
represent information about modern and contemporary artists and the
art of 20th and 21st centuries in
- Lithuania and other countries is going to be accessible from the
year 2007. By donating video and audio equipment, projection and
conference installation for the multifunctional hall-forum, the
grant from the Cultural Grant Aid of
- Japan will enforce the communicational and educational
potentials of National Art Gallery and shall help to develop wider
cultural relations with the rest of the world.
- According to the information presented by Lithuanian Art
Museum’s Centre of Public Relations and Embassy of Japan.
-
- Contact: Lithuanian Art Museum
- 5 Bokšto str., LT-01126, Vilnius.
- Tel. (+370) 5 2628030; fax: (+370) 5 2126006.
- E-mail: muziejus@ldm.lt
-
-
- Lithuania Exposition
-
- Vidas POŠKUS
- National Museum of Lithuania, History
Department
-
- During the Museum’s of Antiques anniversary an exposition
representing historical heritage of Early Lithuania was mounted.
Early Lithuania was one the largest countries in the Middle and
Eastern Europe. Within the period of its prosperity the state was
located between West and East civilizations, what had put it in a
position of a moderator in the dialogue of the two different worlds.
Only some small pieces of the unique historical heritage can be
found on the exposition of the state which reached its complete
political failure by the end of 18th century. The Expositionwas
divided into two large parts.
- One part intends to represent Lithuania’s political development
from its formation till failure in 1795. Another part involves
ethno-confessional spectrum of the state. Eloquent
- objects are being presented within logically and metaphorically
linked groups. All the objects are taken from collections of
National Museum of Lithuania. That is mainly medieval archeological,
historical, iconographical material, numismatics and documents. The
number of objects exceeds 900.
-
- Contact: Vidas Poskus
- National Museum of Lithuania
- 1 Arsenalo str., LT-01100, Vilnius
- Tel.: (+370) 5 2627774; fax: (+370) 5 2611023.
- E-mail: muziejus@lnm.lt ; istorija@lnm.lt
-
-
-
- Alė GUTAUSKIENĖ
- Lithuanian Theatre, Music and Cinema Museum,
- Department of Music
-
- In Lithuanian Theatre, Music and Cinema
- Museum was opened a lasting exhibition named “Musical
instruments made by Lithuanian Artisans”. The exhibitions intends to
introduce old and contemporary Lithuanian craftsmen and their made
instruments that are stored in
- Lithuanian theatre, music and other museums, also in
- private collections. Visitors are capable to acquaint with 351
objects; among them are instruments, sketches
- and graphics. Lithuanian folk and professional strings, reed and
trap are being exhibited in seven halls. The oldest object of the
exhibition is a hand-held organ from Akmuo village church in Varena
District.
-
- Contact: Alė Gutauskienė
- Lithuanian Theatre, Music and Cinema Museum
- 41 Vilniaus str., LT-01119, Vilnius
- Tel/fax: (+370) 5 2622406. E-mail: ltmkm@takas.lt
-
-
-
- Žydrūnas MIRINAVIČIUS
- Kazys Varnelis House-Museum
-
- Kazys Varnelis House-Museum, located in the center
- of Old Town Vilnius cares about collections of prof.
- Kazys Varnelis, gathered in United States during a half of
- century spent in the United States. 33 halls contain a
- collection of old furniture, Western Europe sculpture, graphics
and paintings, majolica and china, historical portraits, maps. In
three more halls one can find a rich library, full of bibliophilic
publications. However, alongside with the Western World the museum
introduces an exotic East: One of the biggest collections of Eastern
art in Lithuania is presented in three halls. There one can get
acquainted with a poorly known culture. Japanese and Chinese
graphics, paintings, needlecrafts of silk, china, furniture,
examples of applied art illustrates the originality of Eastern
aesthetics, culture and religion, art and craft. Museum has more
than sixty objects. More over, in a library one can find a separate
Eastern culture devoted shelf.
-
- Contact: Žydrūnas Mirinavičius
- Kazys Varnelis House - Museum
- 26 Didžioji str., LT-01100, Vilnius
- Tel. (+370) 5 279 16 44. E-mail: kvmuziejus@lnm.lt
-
-
-
- Irena SENULIENĖ,
- Trakai History Museum
-
- Trakai History Museum on 10 of June 2005 opened an exposition of
Sacral art. The exposition is located in a newly restored Jacobin
monastery chapel in the territory of Peninsula Castle. A variety of
ecclesiastical dishes, reliquaries, monstrances and other material
used for decoration of church and liturgical ceremonies stored in
Museum’s collection became a base for the exposition. The oldest one
among liturgical dishes is a cruet made by goldsmiths of Vilnius in
1633. Caspanca - an item of furniture from the Late Renaissance
according to cognizance used to belong to bishop and has a great
historical and artistic value. Decorations and its archaism indicate
that the casapanca was made at the beginning of 16th century
somewhere in Northern Italy. Alongside with liturgical dishes stamps
of churches and monasteries are shown. The initiative of settling
Jacobins in Trakai belongs to vaivada of Trakai Marcijonas Oginskis.
In 1678 he was the one to decide transfering the Trakai Peninsula
Castle to Jacobin monkhood.
-
- Contact: Irena Senulienė
- Trakai History Museum
- 4 Kęstučio str., LT-21104, Trakai. Tel. (+370) 528 58240
- Fax: (+370) 528 55288. E-mail: i.senuliene@trakaimuziejus.lt
-
-
-
- Loreta KORDUŠIENĖ
- Raseiniai Area History Museum
-
- In Raseiniai Area History Museum was opened a new exposition
called: “Raseiniai Region during the Period of Occupations”. A large
hall of 53 square meters tries to astonish its visitors by unusual
interior design. There are no cases, just immovable metal pieces of
explosives, barbed wire and touchable faces of ghetto dwellers.
Bilingual sign in German and Lithuanian announces “Jewish are not
allowed…”; measure in textual information makes a visitor more avid
interesting. A portrait of Hitler printed in children’s journal “Little
Star” (“Zvaigzdute”) is hanged surprisingly low in together with the
“Snow Queen”. Conscription papers, anti-Nazi declarations and
proclamations become eloquent with wider explanations. Remains of
destroyed buildings
- give an impression of impermanence. German troops where changed
by soldiers from the Red Army; their attack routs one can find in
presented layouts, alongside with original scorched map of Europe.
The sight is especially attracted with the heaviest book in the
world – brassy one with the names of rewarded Lithuanian fighters
among its pages.
-
- Contact: Loreta Kordušienė
- Raseiniai Area History Museum
- 3 Muziejaus str., LT-60123, Raseiniai
- Tel.: (+370) 428 51892; fax: (+370) 428 70105.
- E-mail: raseiniumuz@sala.lt
-
-
-
- Jonas VAIČENONIS
- Vytautas the Great War Museum
-
- From the September of 2004 till the June of 2005 in Vytautas the
Great War Museum an unconventional exhibition of Japanese
businessman’s Fuminori Noba’s collection of weapons has been
functioning. That is how the dream of the War Museum, Kaunas
Municipality and many other contributors to introduce Japanese
swords in Lithuania for the first time became true. Traditional
swords while being a
- part of distinctive Japanese culture are famous in the whole
World. The aim of exhibition’s organizers is to introduce Japanese
swords as peaces of art, making visitors familiar themselves with
forms, styles and refinements of those weapons, helping them to
understand this kind of art.
- The exhibition consisted from 11 different cold steels, most of
them where different types of Samurai swords. The hoariest of them
was Fujisima Sword which has more then 620 years old.
-
- Contact: Jonas Vaičenonis
- Vytautas the Great War Museum
- 64 K.Donelaičio str., LT-44248, Kaunas
- Tel.: (+370) 37 422146; fax: (+370) 37 320765
- E-mail: v.d.karomuziejus@takas.lt
-
-
-
- Dr. Vaida ŠČIGLIENĖ
- Vilnius Art Academy Museum
-
- From 12 of January to 1 of April 2005 in Vilnius Art
- Academy A. and A. Tamošaičiai Gallery “Židinys” one was able to
visit a sculptural exhibition from Poland’s museums’collections
called “The Path of the Art of Stanisław Horn-Popławski 1902-1997 –
The Art of Road“. The exhibition in Vilnius Art Academy was created
considering the origins of S. Horn Popławski’s. Vilnius is known as
a pretty long and particularly relevant period of artist’s creative
path. In 1932-1939 he lived and created in Vilnius, worked as a
lecturer in sculpture in University of Stephen Bathory, Faculty of
Art. During the years of the
- Second World War the artist was taken to the concentration camp
Oflag II C Woldenberg, where established his famous workshop
(1939-1945). From the year 1945 S.
- Horn-Popławski’s creative path started to be associated with
Poland’s artistic life. By representing the country in
- the most famous international exhibitions he became an
established artist in the whole world.
-
- Contact: Vaida Ščiglienė
- Vilnius Art Academy Museum
- 6 Maironio str., LT-01124 Vilnius. E-mail: muziejus@vda.lt
-
-
- Traditions
of Chant
-
- From 10 of March till 19 of June 2005 in Museum of
- Applied Art was organized an exhibition representing the culture
of Old Believers in historically and culturally connected region:
Baltic countries and Poland. The exhibition contained more then 200
various objects. Among them were old and new icons, small metal
icons, manuscript and printed liturgical and polemical books,
spiritual implement and canonicals, housewares of Old Believers and
etc. Objects for the exhibition were taken from Lithuanian Art
Museum, National Museum of Lithuania, Martynas Mažvydas National
Library of Lithuania, the Library of the Lithuanian Academy of
Sciences, Latvian National Museum of Art, Museum of History of
Latvia, collections of Daugavpilis Museum of Regional Studies and
Arts, Center of Russian Culture in Daugavpilis (Kalistratov’s House),
Museum of Olsztyn (Poland) Warmy and Mozuria, Old Believer societies
of Vilnius, Kaunas, Ukmergė, Rezekne, The 1st one of Daugavpilis (Novostrojenski),
Grebenshchikov in Ryga as well as from some private collections.
-
- According to the information presented by Lithuanian Art
Museum’s Center of Public Relations
-
- Contact: Lithuanian Art Museum
- 5 Boksto str., LT-01126, Vilnius. Tel. (+370) 5 2628030
- Fax: (+370) 5 2126006. E-mail: muziejus@ldm.lt
-
Prussian Conservationist
-
- Margarita MATULYTĖ
- Lithuanian Art Museum
-
- In Radvila Palace in Vilnius (from 8 of March till 10
- of April) and in Lithuania Minor History Museum in Klaipeda (from
6 of May till 1 of July) has proceeded and
- international exhibition named “Visions of the Past from the
Archive of an Old East Prussian Conservationist”. An
exposition-publication from the Lituanistic collection of
photographs (170 pictures) represents Lithuania Minor, or so called,
Prussian Lithuania at the end of the 19th century – beginning of the
20th. The name of it starts to appear already in the 17th century
maps. The first one started to
- collect the archive was a German archeologist, an art critic, a
heritage protectionist, and finally, a professor of Königsberg
University - Adolf Bötticher. In 1893 he became the first
officeholder of a newly established Central Bureau of Monument
Conservationist in Königsberg. The scholar, with his nearest friend,
architect Fritz Heitmann during
- the period of 1890-1896 has been organizing expeditions,
registering, making detail plans of architectural monuments, taking
pictures of them and chalking them out. The
- exposition was organized by Lithuanian Art Museum in cooperation
with Poland’s Science Academy’s Institute of Art. The Lithuanian
Central State Archives delivered a chronicle illustrating area’s
development.
-
- Contact: Margarita Matulytė
- Lithuanian Art Museum
- 5 Boksto str., LT-01126, Vilnius.
- Tel.: (+370) 5 2628030; (+370) 682 45332
- Fax: (+370) 5 2126006. E-mail: muziejus@ldm.lt
-
-
-
- Margarita MATULYTĖ
- Lithuanian Art Museum
-
- On 22-30 of June 2005 in Vilnius Picture Gallery
- has been opened an exhibition called “Hola, Espańa! Photographs
of 19th Century Spain“. The exhibition presented Lithuanian Art
Museum’s collection of photographs of 19th century Spain and the „Photographical
Archive of Ruiz Vernacci (“Archivo fotogrįfico Ruiz Vernacci”)
stored in Institute of Historical Heritage of Spain in Madrid. An
exhibition was made up of 90 photographies: the Museum exhibits the
works from 19th century, and the Institute delivered original prints
of collodion negatives. The way of exhibition helped to integrate
Lithuanian collection into the common European cultural heritage
context and reveled some specifics of the early „photolab“. This
exposition is the visual art project of great importance in
cooperation between the Republic of Lithuania and the Kingdom of
Spain in the sphere of education and culture during the period of
2004-2008.
-
- Contact: Margarita Matulytė
- Lithuanian Art Museum
- 5 Boksto str., LT-01126, Vilnius.
- Tel.: (+370) 5 2628030; (+370) 682 45332.
- Fax: (+370) 5 2126006. E-mail: muziejus@ldm.lt
-
- From 11 of March till 31 of December 2005 in
- Museum of Applied Art a new exhibition named “Hornours of
Presidents of Lithuania Received from Foreign Countries” has been on.
The exposition has been presenting to society the signs of special
relevance indicating an international recognition and achievements
of young diplomacy during the Independence period. Not only medals
various Kings and presidents presented our leaders with, but even
their patents and inventories, photographic documentary depicting
the course, temper and guests of ceremonies has been
- present on exposition. In photographs one can find faces of
historical personalities, events giving sense to dignity and
importance of state’s international relations. In the Museum’s
Treasury Hall honours received during foreign visits by both
Presidents of Republic of Lithuania: Algirdas Brauskas and Valdas
Adamkus are shown. The medals have not only historical value, but
also an artistic one, because usually they are made by jewelers of
high mastery using expensive materials. The medals are great peaces
of applied art.
-
- According to the information presented by Lithuanian Art
Museum’s Centre of Public Relations
-
- Contact: Lithuanian Art Museum
- 5 Boksto str., LT-01126, Vilnius.
- Tel.: (+370) 5 2628030; fax: (+370) 5 2126006.
- E-mail: muziejus@ldm.lt
-
-
-
- Remigijus ČERNIUS,
- Lithuanian Art Museum
-
- On 5 of July 2005 in the Museum of Applied Art
- Lithuanian Art Museum in cooperation with Lublin Museum
alongside with the exhibition of artifacts from the Royal Palace of
the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the exhibition of acquisitions and
donations to the Royal Palace of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
presented an international educational photography exhibition: “The
Holy Trinity Chapel of Lublin. Where East meets West”. The aim of
this exhibition is to actualize the heritage of Grand Duchy of
Lithuania which reflects a unique phenomenon of historical
development – interplay of Byzantine East and Catholic West
civilizations over Lithuania and neighbor countries. The exhibition
of the Chapel of Lublin Castle and its masterly restored wall
paintings reveals not only a layer of cultural and artistic heritage
from the period of Lithuania becoming Christian, but also a unique
religious experiences and aesthetical attitudes of Lithuanian rulers.
-
- Contact: Remigijus Černius
- Lithuanian Art Museum
- 5 Boksto str., LT-01126, Vilnius. Tel.: (+370) 5 2628030;
- Fax: (+370) 5 2126006. E-mail: muziejus@ldm.lt
-
-
-
- Irena SENULIENĖ,
- Trakai History Museum
-
- Man’s cruelty can be unconfined, whereas his fantasy has
- no boundaries. One was able to satisfy that in an exposition
called “Medieval Torture and Punishment” organized in Trakai History
Museum which displayed the most delicate torturing tools from the
times of Inquisition. The entire exposition consisted from 60
objects of Piotr Buczkowski’s (Opole, Poland) collection. Copies of
torturing tools created according to the prints and descriptions
were gathered in Italy, Spain, Germany and even France. The
exhibition is in demand over many European towns. One was able to
see it in the casemate halls of Trakai Island Castle till the end of
October.
-
- Contact: Irena Senuliene
- Trakai History Museum
- 4 Kęstučio str., LT-21104, Trakai
- Tel.: (+370) 528 58240; fax: (+370) 528 55288.
- E-mail: i.senuliene@trakaimuziejus.lt
-
-
-
- Aušra JONUŠYTĖ
- Kupiškis Ethnographic Museum
-
- The publication presents educational projects of Kupiškis
district museologists, teachers, pupil and people in culture devoted
to the preservation and nurturance of
- Jewish cultural heritage. During the years 2003-2004 Kupiškis
Ethnographic Museum in cooperation with schools of the district has
formulated and developed an educational programme “Spiritual and
Material Heritage of
- Kupiškis Jews”. The project was supported by the International
Commission for Evaluation of Crimes Made in Lithuania by Nazis and
Soviets and Foundation for Educational
- Change. The purpose of the programme was to collect the
reminiscences of Jewish culture, customs and traditions, immortalize
the memorials of Kupiškis Old Jewish Cemetery, and record the
memories of still alive Jews - holocaust contemporaries of Kupiškis.
-
- Contact: Aušra Jonušytė
- Kupiškis Ethnographic Museum
- 2 Gedimino str., LT-40114, Kupškis
- Tel.: (+370) 459 35439. E-mail: kupmuziejus@mail.lt
-
-
-
- Indrė JOVAIŠAITĖ
- Royal Palace Support Fund
-
- The article presents the final stage festival of schoolchildren
project “Fair of the Royal Palace” which was organized
- in the Cathedral Square of Vilnius on 18 of July 2005. The
number of participants reached 360. The project which was organized
by the Royal Palace Support Foundation, Lithuanian Youth Tourism
Center, Center of Art Education of Lithuanian Art Museum and
Ministry of Education and Science contained three parts: training of
participants, workshop and stage projects. The purpose of the
project organizers was to initiate schoolchildren with one of the
most important and the largest scale restoration of historical
objects of our age - the Royal Palace of the Grand Duchy of
Lithuania.
-
- Contact: Indrė Jovaišaitė
- Royal Palace Support Fund
- 2-13 S.Daukanto sq., LT-01122, Vilnius
- Tel.: (+370) 5 2614063; fax: (+370) 5 2125767
- E-mail: fondas@lvr.lt
-
-
-
- Open-Air Museum of the Centre of Europe under the
- auspices of EU programme “Culture 2000” and Foundation for
Culture and Sport of the Republic of Lithuania is participating in
an international project of art education called DIDART. The project
involves 13 European contemporary art museums, galleries and other
cultural institutions. There are six main partners of the project:
Bologna
- Modern Art Gallery (Italy), Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art (Finland),
Luisiana Museum of Modern Art (DK), MART (Italy), Palazzo delle
Esposizioni (Italy) and Open-Air Museum of the Centre of Europe (Lithuania)
- that nominated the artists who seemed to be the best at
representing the museums. Sissi, Botto and Bruno, Anna de Manicor,
Mari Slaattelid, Gintaras Karosas and
- Tellervo Kalleinen where invited to create “Artist’s Home”.
- The idea of “Artist’s Home” originated in Italy. Though all the
buildings had the same shell every artist
- upholstered them in his own way. Compact and easy-assembling “Artist’s
Home” – an excellent educational mean – at the moment is travelling
across the partner-countries. At the end of May artists from Italy
Botto &
- Bruno with their “House” where visiting Open-Air Museum of the
Centre of Europe, while Gintaras Karosas with his own project was
travelling across the Italy.
-
- According to the information presented by Open-Air Museum of the
Centre of Europe.
-
- Contact: Gintaras Karosas
- Open Air Museum of the Centre of Europe
- Tel.: (+370) 5 2377077, (+370) 698 30925
- E-mail: hq@europosparkas.lt, gk@europosparkas.lt
-
-
- (1885-1941) Has Became True
-
- Aldona SNITKUVIENĖ
- M.K. Čiurlionis National Art Museum
-
- This article presents the collection of Ancient Egypt art
- being stored in M.K. Čiurlionis National Art Museum
- One can found very few art works from Ancient Egypt in Lithuania.
Two quite large collections are being stored in Vilnius: National
Museum of Lithuania (26 objects) and Lithuanian Art Museum (25
objects). The largest collection, however, belongs to M.K.
Čiurlionis National Art Museum (296 objects) which contains a
variety of objects gained from Aleksandras Račkus (1893-1965), count
Mykolas
- Tiškevičius (1828-1897), Vladas Daumantas (1885-1977), Hermitage
and other collections. Particularly valuable additions where made by
the first professional Egyptologist in Lithuania – Marija
Rudzinskaitė-Arcimavičienė.
-
- Contact: Aldona Snitkuvienė
- M.K.Čiurlionis National Art Museum
- 55 V.Putvinskio str., LT-44248, Kaunas
- Tel. (+370) 37 229475; fax. (+370) 37 222606
- E-mail: MKC@takas.lt
-
-
-
- Alvyra ZAGRECKAITĖ
- Trakai History Museum, Department of Karaite
-
- The publication presents the history of Persian collection
gathered by the famous spiritual leader of Karaite society,
orientalist and philology doctor Khadji Seraya Khan Shapshal
(1873-1961 After graduating the University of Saint Petersburg
(1901) ) Khan Shapshal was named as a teacher of Russian language in
Persia (Iran from 1935). In Tebriz he used to study Persian history,
collected various texts in Iranian Azerbaijani, manuscripts and
miniatures, later started to collect Mussulman icons, depicting Ali
- the St. Ruler of true-believers (7th cent.). S. Shapshal is the
founder of Karaite Museum in Trakai. At the present day Trakai
History Museum Karaite collection contains more than one thousand
objects including several exhibits from Persian S. Shapshal
collection. The main part of Shapshal’s collection is now in
protection of Lituanian National Museum.
-
- Contact: Alvyra Zagreckaitė
- Karaite Ethnographic Exhibtion
- 22 Karaimų str., LT-21104, Trakai
- Tel.: (+370) 528 55286; fax: (+370) 528 55288.
- E-mail: karaparoda@takas.lt
-
-
-
- An event of great popularity and interest became the
- exhibition of Russian samovars from the second half of 19th -
the first half of 20 th century which belongs to the personal
collection of Vilnius collector Vladimir Lipniagov. More that 30
samovars of different design and capacity has been put on
demonstration. All of them were produced from various
- copper alloys in Russian and Polish factories. Researchers link
the appearance and wide spread of samovars in Russian domestic
culture with the reforms of Peter the Great and the development of
metal industry over Russia. In 1850 Tula alone had 28 independent
factories able to produce more than 120 thousands of samovars per
year. Russian samovars spread widely in 19th century Russian
everyday life and where known because of their shapes and
decorations. By gilding, silvering and decorating samovars with
china, bone and wooden details craftsmen managed to create the real
pieces of art.
-
- According to the information provided by Alexander Pushkin
Literary Museum
-
- Contact: Alexander Pushkin Literature Museum
- 124 Subačiaus str., LT-11345, Vilnius
- Tel./fax. (+370) 5 2690080.
- E-mail: info.puskino@vilniausmuziejai.lt
-
-
- Problems and Research
-
- Zita PIKELYTĖ
- Panevėžys Local Lore Museum
-
- On 12 of January 2005 in the Museum of Resistance to the Soviet
Occupation, a branch institution of Panevėžys Local Lore Museum, was
organized a seminar called “Photography in Museums: Topicalities,
Problems and Research”. It was attended by 46 keepers of
photographical collections, researchers of history of photography
and other people partial to photography problems including 37
meusologists from 15 museums. Problems of collecting and storing
photography, researching photographical history, spread of
information, place of contemporary photography in museums where
among the most disputable ones. Digital photography was also taken
into consideration.
-
- Contact: Zita Pikelytė
- Panevėžys Local Lore Museum
- 23 Vasario 16-osios str., LT-35185, Panevėžys
- Tel.: (+370) 45 462331; fax: (+370) 45 461973.
- E-mail: panevmuziejus@takas.lt
-
-
-
- Dalia KARALIENĖ
- Samogitian Museum “Alka”, Department of Archaeology
-
- The publication presents the archaeological findings of “Alka”
Museum’s Department of Archaeology collected in Telšiai old-town
area during the long-lasting archaeological excavations. Sparse
archaeological findings like works from flint and stony hatchets
that were found on the shores of the lake Mastis at the area of
present town testifies rather early appearance of the first
Neolithic people (4000 – 2000 BC). Various findings make it possible
to imagine the domestic life of Telšiai people. Among them are:
tools for crafts, partial remains of working tools, articles of
constructional and interior ceramics, fragments of window glass,
china and pottery. Most of findings date back to 16th – 20th
centuries. The latter findings as well as many others mentioned in
the article one is able to see in the “Alka” Museum’s exhibition
called “The Old Telšiai: Lost in Centuries”.
-
- Contact: Dalia Karalienė
- Samogitian Museum “Alka”
- 31 Muziejaus str., LT-87357, Telšiai
- Tel.: (+370) 444 70282. E-mail: alka@andernetas.lt
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-
Studies in Japanese Woodblock Print Collection of
Ona Bagnickaitė
- Dalia JONYNAITĖ
- Lithuanian Art Museum, Pranas Gudynas Center for Restoration of
Museum Treasures
-
- Ukiyo-e was for the first time introduced to Europe
- in 1862 during the World Exposition in London, later in Paris
(1867 and 1883) and in Saint Petersburg (1897). Different
generations and representatives of various artistic
- trends were impressed by Japanese woodblock prints. Lots of
western artists used to collect them and to be proud of
- their collections. The wave of interest in different forms of
eastern art arouse at the end of 19th and the beginning of 20th
centuries. It has not bypassed Lithuania. Many researchers of M.K.
Čiurlionis’ art agree that the artist was interested and admired the
art and philosophy of the Far East. Some artist’s works reveal
pretty close connections with Ukiyo-e. This publication presents the
life-story of the less known M. K. Čiurlionis fellow from the times
of Warsaw Art School Ona Bagnickaitė and some studies on her
collection of Japanese woodblock prints. Today 21 prints of the
O.Bag-nickaitė collection are being stored in Šiauliai “Aušra”
Museum, while three works of Suzuki Harunobu delights the visitor’s
eye in B. Sruoga Memorial House-Museum.
-
- Contact: Dalia Jonynaitė
- P. Gudynas Center for Restoration of Museum Treasures
- 8 Rūdninkų str., LT-01135, Vilnius
- Tel.: (+370) 5 2619854
- E-mail: restcentras@takas.lt, dalijona@delfi.lt
-
-
-
- Regina ULOZAITĖ
- National Museum of Lithuania, Department of Restoration
-
- The publication presents an international
- tutorial held on 6-24 of June 2005 in Rome in ICCROM (International
Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of the
Cultural Property) called “Preventive Conservation and Reducing the
Risk for Collections” which was organized by ICCROM and CCI (Canadian
Conservation Institute) in cooperation with CNI (The Netherlands
Institute for Cultural Heritage) and Canadian Museum of Nature.
Among the participants of the tutorial where protectionists of
collections, restorers, leaders of restoration centers, tutors,
archivists and lecturers from various museums, galleries, archives
and other cultural institutions of Barbados, Belgium, Philippines,
Italy, Canada, Mexico, Holland, New Zeeland, Nigeria, Slovenia,
Sweden, South Africa Republic, Turkey, Uruguay and even the United
States.
-
- Contact: Regina Ulozaitė
- National Museum of Lithuania, Department of Restoration
- 1 Arsenalo str., LT-01100, Vilnius
- Tel.: (+370) 5 262 89 34. E-mail: regina@lnm.lt
-
-
-
- Asta ALELIŪNAITĖ
-
- At the beginning of February 2005 in Turin (Italy) proceeded and
international conference called “The Importance of Narration in
Museum. The New Education” which aimed to bring the notice of
museologists to narration as a way of motivation for qualification
refreshment. That is becoming more and more important when meeting
the demands of contemporary museum’s visitors. Over 250 participants
attended from 18 regions of Italy and 28 specialists came from
Easter, Central and Western European countries. However, more
important than the number was the age of participants. The larger
half of attendants where students of cultural subjects and even
people who have been successfully working in the field at the age of
30. It emerged that most of them where not just the stuff of museums
but people working for organizations or in private companies
providing various services for museums, for instance, in
institutions of scientific research, various foundations, agencies
of IT, translation, event organization or cultural tourism.
-
- Contact: asta@balticum-tv.lt
-
- The publication presents the Museum of Cultures in
- Helsinki. The Museum studies and represents the peoples and
cultures of the world and records their cultural heritage. The
museum houses the ethnographic collections and the Finno-Ugrian
collections of the National Museum of Finland.
- The exhibitions provide perspectives into both past and present
events and the everyday life of peoples throughout the world. The
permanent exhibition Fetched from afar tells about man’s curiosity
about the new and unknown, travel, trade and trends of ideas of
different eras, in other words, about the Finland’s contacts with
the rest of the world. By telling stories about the ways of its
collections appearing in Finland puts
- the information of the collections in a wider cultural
historical and international background. Apart from permanent
exhibition, temporary exhibitions are displayed. They provide
alternative ways to review the events of the world and also to
remind of the existence of small, nearly to extinct or pressed
peoples and groups. For example, in The Land of the
- Saame exhibition photographer Pekka Antikainen brings into focus
the people and the nature of the North. The Museum of Cultures is
situated right in the city center, in Tennispalatsi (Tennis Palace),
which also houses the Tennis Palace Art Museum, the museum shop,
several cafes and restaurants and a multiplex movie theatre Finnkino.
-
- According to the information presented by the student of Vilnius
University Faculty of History Andrius Valužis
-
- Contact: Museum of Cultures
- Tennispalatsi, Eteläinen Rautatiekatu 8 / Salomonkatu 15,
- P.O. BOX 913, FIN-00101 Helsinki
- Tel. (+358) 9 40509806, fax. (+ 358) 9 40509821
- E-mail: kulttuurienmuseo@nba.fi www.nba.fi